[CPEO-IRF] Mississippi recovery and federal facilities

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Coast contracting alive and well
Government, defense ideas on fast track

By MIKE KELLER
Biloxi Sun Herald (MS)
May 15, 2006

Defense and government contracting recommendations made in the 
Governor's Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal report have 
mainly been accepted and achieved, according to the committee's chairman.

"I'm very pleased with the way the recommendations have found their way 
into law," said committee chairman Jerry St. Pé.

The report, published at the end of last year, focused on three major 
elements to revive the $6 billion industry, a majority of whose work is 
centered along the Gulf Coast.

...

The second element of the report focused on military installation 
closures scheduled for Mississippi. The committee recommended the 
installations - Naval Station Pascagoula and the Mississippi Army 
Ammunition Plant at Stennis - be shut down quickly and either reused by 
other federal agencies or given over to the state.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/14581531.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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